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    I'm writing my report on Charles Darwin.  Darwin was the son of a very well known, rich physician.  At the age of eight his mother died. His father taught him and his other siblings how to be a well-mannered person. Charles entered school at the age of  thirteen. Darwin wasn't such a good student, he thought school was boring and he had no interest in it.
    I would say he was the thorn of the family.  At the age of sixteen his father put him in medical school.  That did not  work out at all. Well, when it was time to go into the operating room to see how they worked and Darwin saw how they operated on people without any anesthesia,  he could not stomach seeing a person getting cut open and screaming.  To him it was a freak show instead of an educational experience.
    His father then decided to put him in a university to get a degree in theology, to become a minister but he barely made it.  Darwin found out  that he was "claustrophobic" when he got on the H.M.S. Beagle. He convinced the captain that he was a naturalist,  which wasn't true. The H.M.S Beagle was to sail off for scientific  reasons so he said to himself ,"This is my opportunity to learn more about what I love."
    There in Ecuador he realized the epic of evolution.  His theory was that it all depended on the environment  the species lived in. The example that he used was birds, and the way their beaks were formed. He said that different kinds of birds had different kinds of beaks so they could survive. If the bird had a long beak it was meant to find food in hard to reach places.
    Darwin wanted to show the way evolution worked. He knew plenty  on the topic but he didn't know everything.  There are still many other things Darwin never learned about evolution.
 
 

    Darwin was eight when he lost his mother. He started school when he was thirteen. Darwin's father was a wealthy physician. Darwin has three sisters and one brother. Darwin was not so bright. He did not like to read because it was boring to him. His father sent him to medical school when he was sixteen but he left because of what he saw. He saw people being operated on while awake. All the pain he saw those people feeling made him sick. The H.M. Beagle was a very large ship- it was 90ft long and 24ft wide. But still Darwin thought it was small. He did not like it He was so rich he could make any voyage to any place he wanted. One of the places he went to was the Galapagos Islands. He went there to study "Finches" which are birds. He loved to study nature. One bad thing about Darwin is that he knew nothing about genetics. Darwin had 6 theories. Not all were true. Darwin thought his theories were true but they were false. Here are a few:
    1. Survival of the fittest-In the competition for existence, the individuals that are better adapted to their environment will have a greater chance of living long enough to reproduce.
    2. Natural Selection-Darwin realized that survival of the fittest can act as a kind of natural selection, similar to the artificial selection of plant and animal breeders.
    3. Over production-Most species produce far more offspring that are needed to maintain the population.
    4. Struggle for existence- Since living space and food are limited, the offspring in each generation must compete among themselves, and with other species too, for the necessities of life.
 

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